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PATENT OFFICE SMITH, OF NEW' YORK, N. Y.

IRONING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 468,266, dated February 2, 1892.

Application filed April 11, 1391. Serial No. 388,578. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HAMILTON E. SMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ironing-lvlachines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an ironing-inachine, the peculiar construction of which is pointed out in the following specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 represents a plan or top view. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section in the plane at a, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail side view of one of the swinging arms and its actuatingcam.

In the drawings, the letter A designates a frame in which is firmly secured a box B, the top of which is convex and divided into solid sections a a a a with intermediate perforated sections a. In the interior of the box 13 are situated the heating-pipes C, which are supplied with steam through a pipe D, and from which the condensed water flows through the pipes E E. It will be observed that these discharge-pipes E connect with the lowest portions of the heatingpipes C, while the steam'supply pipe connects with the highest portions of said heating-pipes.

The heating-pipes O are divided into sections 0 c c c, and sections 0 the former sections being situated beneath the solid sections at a a a of the top of the box 13, while the sections 0 of the heating-pipes are situated beneath the perforated sections a of the top of the box B.

By referring to Fig. 2 of the drawings it will be seen that the sections 0 c c c of the heating-pipes form a support for the solid sections a a a a of the top of the box, so that the same are not forced downward when exposed to a pressure from above, while the sections 0 of the heating-pipes are at some distance below the perforated sections a of the top of the box 13, so that the heated air can escape freely through the perforations of these sections.

Over the box B are situated a series of rollers F F F F which are geared together by endless apron II. The rollers F F F F are so placed that the lower branch of the endless apron ll bears upon the convex top of the heating-box B, and said apron is kept taut by the gravitating feed-roller I, which is mounted in the ends of two arms J J, swinging on the ends of the shaftf of the roller F. On the ends of the shaft f of the roller F are mounted cams jj, which act upon the arms J J, so that during each revolution of the shaft f the feed-roller I is raised up for ashort time and the clothes to be ironed can be placed beneath it.

The rollers F F I F hold the apron II in close contact with the solid sections a a a a of the top of the heating-box so that the clothes in being carried along by the apron II are pressed and polished during the time when they pass over the solid sections of the top of the heating-box and during the time when they are carried over the perforated sections a of the heating-box, they are exposed to currents of heated air so that they become gradually dry.

The clothes to be ironed are taken from the basket K. Y

I do not herein broadly claim the combination, with a heating-box having its top divided into solid and perforated sections, of an endless apron, a series of rollers which hold the apron in contact with the solid and perforated sections, and a gravitating feed-roller. Nor do I herein broadly claim the combination, with a heating-box, of an endless apron, a series of rollers which hold the apron in contact with the top surface of the heatingbox, a gravitating roller, and a cam acting to raise the gravitating roller, as such constitute the subject-matter of my application for patent, filed of even date herewith, Serial No. 388,579.

lVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The stationary heating-box 13, having a convex clothes supporting surface composed of alternating perforate and imperforate sections, in combination with an endless apron II and a series of rollers for holding the apron in contact with the convex top surface of the stationary heating-box, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the heating-box B, having a convex top divided into solid sections at a a a and perforated sections a, of an endless apron H, a series of rollers arranged to hold said apron in contact with the solid sections of the convex top, and heatingpipe sections 0 c c 0 close beneath said solid sections of the convex top, substantially as described.

3. The stationary heating-box B, having a convex top'surface, in combination with an endless apron H, a series of rollers which hold the apron in contact with the convex top surface of the stationary heating-box, and the gravitating roller I for holding the apron taut, substantially as described.

4. The stationary heating-box 13, having a convex top surface, in combination with an endless apron H, a series of rollers which hold the apron in contact with the convex top surface of the stationary heating-box, the pivoted swinging arms J, the gravitating roller 5. The stationary heating-box B, having a convex top surface divided into solid and perforated sections,in combination with an end less apron H, a series of rollers which hold the apron in contact with the convex top surface of the stationary heating-box, and a gravitating roller I for holding the apron taut, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing 

